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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04

People

Tantely Andrianarivo age 34
Eugène Mangalaza age 38
Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani age 47
Soumana Sacko age 38
Oumar Tatam Ly age 25
Kunio Lemari age 46
Andrei Sangheli age 44
Gheorghe Brega age 37
Allan Louisy age 72
Idrissa Seck age 29
Allan Kemakeza age 40
Matthew Wale age 20
Jules Sedney age 66
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 57
Yusuf Zuayyin age 57
Guilherme Posser da Costa age 35
Frederick Sumaye age 38
Mwigulu Nchemba age 14
John Malecela age 55
Orville Turnquest age 59
Clifford Darling age 67
Koloa Talake age 54
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 53
Esmon Saimon age 33
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 49
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 77
Bill Skate age 35
Mahdi Mohammed Gulaid age 15
Hong Nam-ki age 28
Yoo Il-ho age 34
Motazz Moussa age 22
Gian Nicola Berti age 28
Oscar Mina age 30
Krešimir Zubak age 42
Eduardo Arana age 23
Antero Flores Aráoz age 47
Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu age 30
Charles Clarke age 38
Henry H. Fowler age 80
Hugh Shelton age 47
William French Smith age 71
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 77
Peter Schoomaker age 43
James C. McConville age 30
Cheng Li-wun age 19
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 57
Jotham Napat age 16
Yury Drozdov age 63
Petar Stipetić age 51
Ra'ad al-Hamdani age 37
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach age 33
Paul Aussaresses age 70
Irina Paley age 85
Nevvare Hanım age 88
Yi Bangja age 87
Yi Hae-won age 70
Yi Ku age 57
Michael Prinz von Preussen age 49
Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen age 22
Lord Ivar Mountbatten age 26
Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (born 1982) age 7
Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick age 4 months
Sylvana Tomaselli age 31
Edward J. King age 63
Pat McFadden age 24
John A. Volpe age 80
Marvin Mandel age 69
Winfield Dunn age 61
Charles Poletti age 85
Roy Barnes age 41
Louis Freeh age 39
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 37
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 50
Nita Barrow age 72
Pascal Nyabenda age 23
Yem Sambaur age 76
Ung Huot age 44
Chhean Vam age 73
Sim Var age 83
Nhiek Tioulong age 80
Nagoum Yamassoum age 35
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 61
Osborne Riviere age 57
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 43
Obed Dlamini age 52
Mabandla Dlamini age 58
George Brizan age 46
Sidya Touré age 44
Jean-Michel Lapin age 39
Robert Malval age 45
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 68
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 86
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 36
Clifford Campbell age 96
Jumabek Ibraimov age 45
Nasirdin Isanov age 45
Amin al-Hafez age 63
Hae Phoofolo age 42
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 50
Ruben Zackhras age 41
Zeine Ould Zeidane age 22
Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef age 28
Serafim Urechean age 39
Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal age 28
Francisco Urcuyo age 73
Boukary Adji age 50
Bernard Kolélas age 55
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 48
Arnhim Eustace age 44
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 37
Žarko Korać age 42
Milan Čič age 57
Viktor Avbelj age 75
John Lapli age 33
Francis Billy Hilly age 40
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 49
Gordon Darcy Lilo age 23
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 75
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 37
Manuel Quintas de Almeida age 32
Lee Huan age 71
Tang Fei age 57
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 37
Suriya Jungrungreangkit age 34
Baron Vaea age 67
Washington Beltrán age 75
Josias Moli age 34
Jean-Marie Léyé age 57
Ahmed al-Rahawi age 39
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 47
Choo Kyung-ho age 28
Kamil Idris age 34
Italo Righi age 29
Anna Maria Muccioli age 24
Manuel Ciavatta age 12
Mirko Tomassoni age 19
Marco Nicolini age 18
Guerrino Zanotti age 26
Luca Santolini age 4
Živko Radišić age 51
Pedro Angulo age 29
Komlan Mally age 28
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 34
Abdessalam Jalloud age 44
Benjamin Civiletti age 53
Jeffrey A. Rosen age 31
John A. Wickham Jr. age 60
Hung Hsiu-chu age 41
Flora MacDonald age 62
James T. Conway age 41
Vu Van Mau age 74
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 46
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 80
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff age 39
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 66
Karim Valiyev age 28
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 79
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 53
Marion Stein age 62
James Ogilvy age 25
David Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife age 28
Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen age 36
Prince Radu of Romania age 28
Claire Booth age 11
John J. Gilligan age 68
Alan Milburn age 31
Malcolm Wilson age 75
Harry Hughes age 62
Frank Lausche age 93
Peter Kyle age 18
Bantz J. Craddock age 39
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 40
Fuad Guliyev age 47
Firuz Mustafayev age 55
Chérif Sy age 28
Nestor Ntahontuye age 11
Bello Bouba Maigari age 42
Célestin Gaombalet age 47
Henri Maïdou age 53
Ahmed Abdou age 53
Aziz Sedki age 68
Cándido Muatetema Rivas age 29
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 42
Maya Tskitishvili age 14
Ben Jones age 64
Artur Silva age 33
Jean Marie Chérestal age 41
Gilbert Aké age 33
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 39
Taher Masri age 47
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 46
Andrei Iordan age 54
Shafik Wazzan age 64
Mohamed Ahmed Mangush age 21
Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana age 24
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 58
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 35
Dashiin Byambasüren age 46
David Beattie age 65
Aliou Mahamidou age 41